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Nearly 50 years ago, a Louisiana was sentenced to life in prison in the kidnapping and rape of a nurse. But after a judge overturned his conviction, he is walking out of prison Wednesday morning a free man.

It’s September, which means the nation is starting to go football crazy. Ohio woman Janine Fulton recently took football insanity to a new level when she filled a couple official size Wilson balls with pills, marijuana, cigarettes, cell phones, and cell phone chargers and tried to t…

Much of Acadiana remains on stand-by as we await the confirmation from Lafayette Police on a body that was located yesterday in Evangeline Parish. Paul Mouton, of Lafayette Police, says they are confident in their findings yesterday and that they believe Mickey Shunick has been brought home. Since t…

We thought that we saw it all when we discovered the two Lafayette Parish Prison inmates who were somehow allegedly updating their Facebook pages from INSIDE the jail - that is until we saw the reactions to the story. Some of you had us in TEARS with your comments via Facebook, so we decided to pull…

Facebook is addictive. So addictive, that according to KATC's Erin Steuber, two Lafayette Parish inmates have been secretly active on the social media site for close to a month, undetected - until now. Most of the time, I'm hesitant to buy into zany stories like these, but when I saw one o…

Life must really be bad on the outside if this woman was trying to break into jail. I've never really been inside a jail or prison before, but if everything I hear is true then I know its pretty small and they don't let you put pictures on the wall. Do you think she left a than…